Mount Sirius - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Mount Sirius is a peak

Summit (topography)

In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...

, 2,300 m, surmounting a prominent, wedge-shaped, ice-free spur between Walcott Neve

Walcott Neve

Walcott Neve is a neve, about in area, bounded by the Marshall Mountains, Lewis Cliffs and Mount Sirius. Named by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition for Richard Walcott, party leader and geologist....

and Bowden Neve

Bowden Neve

Bowden Névé is a névé about wide, lying southward of Mount Miller between the Queen Elizabeth Range and the Queen Alexandra Range. It was observed in 1958 by the New Zealand Southern Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and named for Charles M. Bowden, Chairman of the Ross Sea...

, 3.5 nautical miles (6 km) north of Bauhs Nunatak

Bauhs Nunatak

Bauhs Nunatak is a prominent nunatak, high, at the north side of Walcott Neve, about south-southeast of Mount Sirius. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Luvern R. Bauhs, United States Antarctic Research Program ionospheric scientist at South Pole Station, 1959....

. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active in 1957-58 and again in 1958-59. The 1957-58 expedition went to the Ross Dependency and named the Borchgrevink Glacier...

(NZGSAE) (1961-62) for the star Sirius which was used in fixing the baseline in the area.

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